Impacts & Insights

Education
01 Dec 2022

Reach Out and Read RI Provides Culturally and Developmentally Relevant Books

Walk into most pediatricians’ offices in Rhode Island and you are likely to see a waiting ...

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Skills Training
01 Dec 2022

New Bridges for Haitian Success Creates Pathways

For many immigrants, including the more than 150 new Haitian refugees that recently arrived in Rhode ...

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Education
01 Dec 2022

First Generation College Students Find Their Path Through College Visions

Yuselly Mendoza’s parents emigrated to Rhode Island from Guatemala with hopes of giving their children a ...

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Education
31 Aug 2022

2022 POC Law School Scholarship

Women. Immigrants. First generation college students. Yelitza Montesino and Dania Polanco, both summa cum laude graduates ...

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Community
17 Aug 2022

Foster Forward Empowers Those Left Behind to Foster Futures

Taylor peered into the audience, searching for her for family members. It was a big moment ...

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Community
27 Jul 2022

Mariam Kaba Wins Transform RI Scholarship

Mariam Kaba, then a 15-year-old sophomore at Woonsocket High School, was the first-ever winner of the ...

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Community
19 Jul 2022

Amos House

It is mid-morning on a weekday in June and Amos House is bustling. Inside the Pine ...

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Community
11 Apr 2022

Button Hole

Since Button Hole opened more than two decades ago, its mission has been clear: to make ...

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Community
11 Apr 2022

Sojourner House

When *Abi, a single mother of two, arrived in Rhode Island from Nigeria on a work ...

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